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Easter egg: Go to the second page of the Special Features, select "6th Street Bridge.", press right twice and down twice. This will highlight Samuel L. Jackson's cap. Press OK and you will be taken to the S.W.A.T team and crew playing golf.

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Easter egg: Highlight "Extras" and press Up. This will highlight Steven Zahn's head. Press enter to watch a clip with Zahn inside his trailer.

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Easter egg: In the "Unrated" version go to Bonus Features. Scroll down to Bloopers and push the right button. You will see two hands light up. That will take you to a short called "Wainy Days".

Chris Skoglund

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Easter egg: On the DVD's Main Menu go to 'Bonus Features' and highlight the Menu entry for 'Fantasy Comes to Life' and then highlight the music symbol. Press 'Enter' on your remote and watch the music video 'Ever Ever After' by Carrie Underwood. Also, in the 'Bonus Features' section, highlight the Mickey Mouse symbol located under the 'More' menu option. Then press 'Enter' to watch a clip of the producer, Barry Josephson, talking about which classic Disney fairytales that 'Enchanted' makes reference to.

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Easter egg: First, watch the movie or watch a special feature, then go to the main menu. In the main menu, highlight any of the four options, but don't press enter. Press the right button and the "Tribulation Force" part of the title will turn from a yellow color to a red color. Press enter. You will hear a funny story from the Director of Photography.

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Easter egg: On the main menu, go to "Innstillinger" (Settings), press Up and Enter on your DVD remote control to see a selection of outtakes from the movie.

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Easter egg: Warning: very intricate. These steps will play the most erotic scenes from Showgirls back-to-back and looped 5 times. 1) From the Chapter Selections menu, go to Chapters 9-12, highlight but don't press enter. Activate small hidden button in the upper left corner of the screen by entering "17" on your remote ONCE. 2) Go to chapters 21-24 (highlight w/o enter) and enter "17" on your remote ONCE. 3) (optional to add extra scene) Go to chapters 33-36 (highlight w/o enter) and enter "17" on your remote ONCE. 4) From the chapters 33-36 menu, play the ending credits. 5) Hit the forward skip button to end the movie. 6) You will see the MGM logo animation display, followed by the Showgirls Copyright screen. On THIS screen enter "2" on your remote control. If you did this correctly, the video should begin playing.

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Easter egg: On disc 2, go to the Skynet Database (answer to the question is "Brewster") and select the first Information Stream "Human Archive Intelligence". You'll then have a list of profiles to access showing. To find the Easter egg you must go on John Connor's profile or Kate Brewster's profile. After opening the profile, characteristics of the character will start. Just as this happens, push the right button followed by the up button. A red square will be circled around the clip on the top right hand side of the screen. As this is happening, push play and you will see a behind the scenes clip of the actor or actress' time on set (depending which profile you access). If you access John Connor's profile you will see a clip of Nick Stahl's time on set as John Connor. If you access Kate Brewster's profile you will see a clip of Claire Danes' time on set as Kate Brewster.

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Easter egg: On the Extras, click sideways (right) on your DVD remote and it will highlight an invisible dynamite on the right hand side. Click on it and it will show the 'Yosemite Sam getting blown up' scene from the movie.

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Easter egg: On the "Special Features" menu, go to the bottom and select "More" to bring up the second menu. While on this menu, press Right on the remote to light up the small Bender icon. Press Enter to see the producers' hand-drawn charts of how the different timelines intermix and are resolved.

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Easter egg: Special Edition DVD: Go to Special Features, highlight "A Menace Named Dennis", press right and then press OK. This will take you to the Mason Gamble (Dennis) Audition.

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Easter egg: On the Special Edition, select any of the four features on the disk's main menu, then go to the special features menu and hit enter. Next, go to the bottom of the screen, down to where it says "More," and hit enter. On this second page, there should be a white angel picture of Elizabeth Hurley. Hit the right arrow key on the DVD remote. Now a little red devil should have appeared on Elizabeth Hurley's shoulder, which you must click on. This reveals a hidden wish of being a drug-using rock star that was once in the movie, but was edited out for the Big Mac and a large Coke wish, because it would have made the movie rated R instead of PG-13.

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Easter egg: In the Spider-man 2 widescreen Disc 2, under the "Making the Amazing" sub menu, a picture of Doc Ock and his tentacles are in the background. If you click the upper left tentacle (using a DVD-ROM on a computer) a clip of Willem Dafoe pretending to be Doc Ock is shown. When using a normal DVD player, you can use the arrow keys. When "Play All" is selected use the arrow-up key once, the upper left tentacle turns green, then click "Enter" and you will see the same clip.

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Easter egg: There are 3 Easter Eggs on this DVD. 1 - go to Special Features, highlight Scene 44, then click the Right arrow key where a blood splat will appear. When you click on it, a short, funny interview with Ed Harris will play where he tells of all the groups that will enjoy watching this film. 2 - go to Special Features, click on Acts of Violence, then highlight Act 1 - Random. Then click the right arrow key where a birthday candle will appear. If you click on it, a short video will play where the cast wishes Viggo Mortensen a Happy Birthday. 3 - go to Special Features, click on Acts of Violence, then highlight Act 1 - Random. Then click the left arrow key where a fish will be highlighted. If you click on it, a short video will play of Viggo Mortensen joking around with a plastic fish (related to an inside joke on the set called Fish Friday).

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Easter egg: On the second disc, the Special Features, select "Making of Alpha and Omega" (the first thing on the top of the screen). Press your right button to highlight an icon of the wolf (Kate). Press your Enter button and you can browse through three screens of DVD credits.

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Easter egg: Go to the Special Menu. Go down to where it says EXTRAS. Push the left button of the remote and the left blinker light on the Vespa will be red. It will show you the email of the old woman. From there you can push the down button on the remote and the other light will turn red and that will show you part of the speech in the Chinese restaurant.

Chris Skoglund

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Easter egg: From the main menu, scroll to special features. Hit the up button twice and then hit enter.

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Easter egg: Select Extras, then when on the first page, click left, and you'll highlight a fish. Click enter to see a short effects film.

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Easter egg: Insert the disk, then when on the main menu, go to "Language select." When on this page, you'll see a picture of Hal and Mauricio. Go up, then hit left, and you'll see a little blue arrow. Hit enter to see a short clip of how the special effects technicians made Maurico's tail work.

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Easter egg: On the Special Edition version, go to page three of the special features, go to 'main menu' then hit left, and you can highlight the knife that Jennifer holds. The easter egg reveals a selection of stills from the movie.

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